EU standing up for encryption

Mateo Meier | June 23, 2017

The European parliament’s committee on civil liberties, justice and home affairs has suggested that amendments to the 2002 regulation on privacy and electronic communications (ePrivacy) are required in order to safeguard encryption. Specifically, the proposal calls for a ban on ‘backdoors’ into encrypted communications and services.

However, as we have made clear before, the desire to circumvent encryption is incredibly concerning. As such, it is encouraging to see a government body to come out so strongly in favour of encryption technologies. Businesses of all sizes, and individuals, not only have every right to protect their data (and that of their customers), but also have a responsibility to do so.

At Artmotion we have always offered our customers the highest levels of privacy security for their data, and encryption forms a key part of the service we offer. As such we genuinely hope that the EU can follow through on these proposals as that can only be a good thing for everyone who does business in Europe.

Mateo Meier

Mateo Meier, founder of Artmotion, spent the early stages of his career over in the US where he became an astute marketing director before returning home to Switzerland to setup Artmotion. Artmotion was started in early 2000 and provides highly bespoke server solutions to an international set of clients.